70% Amazon Royalties (For Some Definitions of 70%)

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Written on June 30, 2010 by   · 13 Comments

Amazon’s Digital Self Publishing platform was updated yesterday. (Perhaps the cause of their brief outage? Or maybe we can blame Android. Or me refreshing too much.)  I was poking around this morning and naturally wandered over to the Pricing Page, even though I don’t have any books that... Read more


Amazon’s New Royalty Structure

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Written on January 21, 2010 by   · 7 Comments

So, twitter was abuzz yesterday with news of Amazon’s announcement about a new two-tier royalty structure for ebooks.  Basically those who are willing to adhere to a certain set of rules can get 70% royalties instead of the 35% offered to self-pubbing authors and the (I think) 50% or so that publishers... Read more